The most common meaning ofeighty-sixencountered today is the one that is closer to its service industry roots (“to refuse to serve a customer”). Given how many meanings the term has picked up in less than a century of use, however, it’s anyone’s guess as to what meanings it will...
Amongst the Greeks and Romans it was confined to manufacturing aromatic waters, and Nicander the poet (B.C. 140) used for a still the term ἄμβιξ, like the Irish “pot” and its produce “poteen.” The simple art of converting salt water into fresh, by boiling the former and ...
His son Raymond joined Greatermans as a young graduate in the early 1950’s. By 1966 was the managing director of eighty-five Greatermans’ stores and had won the Outstanding Young South African award of the year. However, he was fired from his position the very same year because of his...
Intensification or rapid improvement in glucose control has been associated with a transitory, reversible ophthalmologic refraction disorder, worsening of diabetic retinopathy, and acute painful peripheral neuropathy. However, long-term glycemic control decreases the risk of diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy....
The Mormon term "Celestial Kingdom" is disturbingly similar to the older Freemasonry term "Celestial Lodge Above."The Freemasonry ceremonies are not from Solomon's Temple.Freemasonry is a religion:"Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion, and its teachings are instructions in ... the ...
“Colonel Bowman was a man of great voice. He could be heard a mile away. He went in through the wilderness alone, came upon a camp of Indians, made a great noise and routed the whole camp. He weighed 300 pounds stripped. He ran eighty miles from Limestone to Harrodsburgh pursued by...
Abstract The marked increase in the demand for animal protein of high quality necessitates protecting animals from infectious diseases. This requires increasing the use of veterinary therapeutics. The overuse and misuse of veterinary products can cause a risk to human health either as short-term or ...
By the year 2000 knowledge of computers will be necessary in over eighty percent of all occupations. Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those who are print illiterate today. What is "computer literacy"? The term itself seems to imply some degree of" knowing"...
myself was unaware of the term until a friend said to me the other day that she and her family almost got a ticket over the weekend. I knew that they had spent the weekend in the desert, an odd place to attract the attention of the authorities I thought. I asked her what happened....
1961 March 20, Congressional Hearing, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Unemployment and the Impact of Automation of the Committee on Education and Labor, Impact of Automation on Employment: Statement of Dr. Paul A. Samuelson, Professor of Economics, ...